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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 19</span><span class="fp-text">ÉSOPE RÉPOND À UN BAVARD</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula XIX</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">AESOPUS RESPONDET GARRULO</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ésope était à lui seul toute la maison de son maître.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un jour il eut l'ordre de préparer le diner plus tôt que de coutume ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il cherche partout du feu, court de maison en maison,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">en trouve enfin et allume sa lampe.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Comme il avait par des détours allongé son chemin,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pour abréger son retour il traversa le marché.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un bavard lui cria de la foule&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Ésope, que fais-tu donc de ta lampe en plein midi&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Je cherche un homme,&nbsp;» lui répondit-il, et il regagna promptement son logis.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aesopus domino solus cum esset familia,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">parare cenam jussus est maturius.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ignem ergo <span class="fp-correction" title="querens  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quaerens</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quaerens  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">querens</span></span> aliquot lustravit domus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="tandemquae  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">tandemque</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="tandemque  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">tandemquae</span></span> invenit ubi lucernam accenderet.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tum circumeunti fuerat quod iter longius</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">effecit brevius, namque recta per forum</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">coepit redire. Et quidam <span class="fp-correction" title="est  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">e</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="e  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">est</span></span> turba garrulus&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Aesope, medio sole quid tu cum lumine&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Hominem, inquit, quaero&nbsp;» et abiit festinans domum.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Si cet importun réfléchit sur cette réponse,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il dut voir que le vieil Ésope n'avait pas pris pour un homme</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le plaisant qui raillait un homme affairé.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc si molestus ille ad animum rettulit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sensit profecto se hominem non visum seni,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">intempestive qui occupato adluserit.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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